Hello All,
Since Urs has stepped down from OLL work for personal reasons, as
somebody who has written code for OLL, and contributed some snippets
of some utility, I have been considering taking it all over. I have
proposed to make a new domain openlilylib.space, move to Gitlab.
establish a website on my personal Linux servers at my own expense,
and add much more documentation and morenad try to communicate the use
and utility of OLL to end users.
I have written to a few of the members of the list and perhaps it is
too soon but I have only heard back from one person. There have been
no contributions for some time. And now suddenly the thread about
licencing has risen again, a topic which I find absurd and I would
refuse to countenance it for any OLL work ongoing that I would be
doing. It seems that thread is trying to actively discourage OLL use.
Like Urs, I get the impression that the effort on OLL is not worth the
return, as hardly anybody seems to use it and there appears to be
little interest. This is very disappointing. So, may I ask - it is
worth me continuing the development and maintenance of OLL?
Andrew
[I am not prepared to discuss changes to GPL and anything related to licences.]
I also want to add my voice to the ones who do use OLL and would be sad to see it go unmaintained. I use at least parts of it (mainly the edition engraver, break sets and the shapeII function) whenever I work with LilyPond (which is not as often as I would like to and should, but still more or less regularly and as part of my job).
Unfortunately, I am currently in no position to contribute to it (regarding both skill and time), although I had always hoped I would be able to some day.